Baseball Coaching Drills Your Team Needs

It is a good
idea from time to time to search out some new baseball coaching drills.

Everyone
gets bored doing the same baseball drills over and over. And on this website
there are dozens of great drills for your practice.

A really
good baseball drill involves lots of players, has some action and uses hitting
and fielding. The drill listed below provides all of these points.

So check out
the drill we have listed below and once you finish reading about it, check out
some of the other articles we have on baseball coaching drills.

The complete
list of team practice drills is listed after this article.

The Doubles Game

Do some of
your players drive you nuts by not hustling out of the batter’s box? Are there
times when an opposing outfielder bobbles a hit and if the runner would have
been hustling he could have made it to second?

Then this
drill is for your team. It will get your players into the habit of running fast
right out of the box.

And maybe just the opposite is true for your
team. Do your outfielders take a lackadaisical attitude about getting a hit
back to the infield? And then the other team’s hitter hustles out of the box
and turns a single into a double.

That should
make you mad and embarrassed. Well, use this drill to correct those problems.
Here how it goes.

The Players Involved

You have all
three outfielders in this drill, a shortstop and a second baseman.

Someone,
probably a coach or dad, pitches batting practice at a hittable speed.

You are
going to get some hitting practice in along with some fielding practice, and
some hustle practice. Have you tried hustling practice before? Well, with this
drill it works.

The batter
hits the pitch and should come flying out of the box. You see, he has to try
for a double.

You Have To Go For Two

There are no
singles in this game. Every hit is a double or an out. If he stops at first he
is out.

He has got
to get out of the box and make the turn to go to second. No need for a first
base coach. Make it to second or you are out.

So the
batter also knows he better get it out of the infield.

Oh, I almost
forgot. There is no bunting.

Even though
the batting practice coach could probably throw the runner out at second with
ease, this drill is about the batter versus the outfielders. So, no bunting
allowed.

That being
said, the batter needs to hit the ball out of the infield. This is also a good
baseball coaching drill for making batters try to hit the ball farther and in
the gaps.

Now let’s
move on to the defensive players.

And just remember, baseball coaching drills that involve lots of players help to keep practice lively and fun.

The Defense

The spot
light is now on the outfielders. They are going to be hustling to get the
baseball back to the infield like you have never seen.

Your team
may also get to work on their relay throws. That’s why there is a shortstop and
second baseman.

One covers
the bag at second and the other needs to go out for relay throws. Of course any
balls hit to the left side the shortstop goes out for the relay throw and the
right side the second baseman goes out.

The two of
them need to work out a plan for balls up the middle that might need a relay
throw.

So the
batter is coming out of the box like gangbusters and the outfielders know it.
The race is on.

Baseball Coaching Drills - Make a Game of It

If you
happen to have ten or so players you could split up into two teams and play a
game from this. Any runner safe at second is a run.